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    M17x R2 ati and nvidia card at the same time

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by brooks93, Aug 28, 2012.

  1. brooks93

    brooks93 Notebook Consultant

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    heard of people in full size system running ati/amd graphics cards and a low end nvidia card for physx's.

    Since the 17x R2 has two slots could we do the same thing?
     
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    We've been discussing this in the past and some of us were supposed to try it but nobody ever did from what i recall.

    Anyway, physically it is possible but in order to achieve this you'll need hacked drivers since nvidia doesn't allow this if the primary card is not nvidia.
     
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    its was just something I was thinking about since you can run the 7970m you really don't need CF or SLI anymore to run todays games.
     
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    I understand your logic but even the desktop AMD 7xxx series don't have a solution for this yet.
     
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    I need to find the article I found awhile ago about how to enable physx's on amd/ati systems with 30x.xx drivers. If I find it again I will post the link
     
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